Law
How Long Can They Hold You? The s 34(1) Constitutional Challenge and the 90-Day Cap
How the Constitutional Court struck down s 34(1)(b) and (d) and later wrote transitional rules capping immigration detention at 90 days.
Bo Lyu
Candidate attorney in immigration & administrative law, Cape Town. PhD in English literature (Gao Xingjian); lecturer in Chinese literature. I also write on US macro & financial regulation.
Law
After Unlawful Detention: The Rahim Damages Claim, and a Case a Chinese Party Lost
Rahim makes detention in an undesignated place unlawful and claimable; Li shows how refusing to acknowledge a notice forfeits every defence.
Law
Spouses and Children: Nandutu and Rayment, Two Branches Grown from Dawood
How Nandutu and Rayment let foreign spouses and parents of South African children change status and work in-country.
Law
A Work Visa Is Not a Licence to Open a Shop: The Right of Foreigners to Work and Trade
Weng, Watchenuka and Somali Association mark the line between employment, self-employment and a foreigner's right to trade.
Law
Children Born in South Africa: Birth Registration, Citizenship by Descent, and Naturalisation on Reaching Majority
Ali, Chisuse, Centre for Child Law and Cirangashane trace the road from a child's birth registration to South African citizenship.
Law
Two Major Shifts of 2025-2026: Citizenship No Longer Automatically Lost, and the Asylum Threshold Provisions Collapse
The DA, Scalabrini and Irankunda judgments reshape citizenship loss and asylum access, closing a twelve-part case-law series.
Teaching
From the Interpreter's Booth to the Lecture Hall: How Presence Changes Teaching
The first thing simultaneous interpreting taught me was to hand my whole attention to the meaning happening right now.
Teaching
Where Does Fairness Come From in Assessment? A Moderator's Notes
Before a mark reaches any one student, someone has to stand guard over the word "fairness."
Teaching
Teaching Dream of the Red Chamber in Cape Town: How Chinese Literature Lands in a South African Classroom
When the Grand View Garden meets students in Cape Town, the hardest thing to teach is never vocabulary — it is context.
Macro
The Dollar Smile and the Global South: A Macro Note from South Africa
The dollar strengthens in both extreme fear and extreme boom; caught in between are emerging-market currencies.
Macro
One Market in Five Mirrors: MiFID II, the FCA, the SFC, MAS and the CFTC on Digital Assets
The same token can be, at once, a security, a commodity, e-money and nothing at all — depending on the jurisdiction.
Macro
Reading the Fed: Why "Higher for Longer" Matters More Than the First Cut
Markets fixate on the first rate cut; what really prices assets is how long rates stay high.